30DoA.02: Favorite TV series: Slayers
Sep. 11th, 2010 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccastareyesDay 2 - Favorite TV series: Slayers
Okay, who is really surprised by this? Anyone? Anyone? No?
Good.
Anyway, I first saw Slayers as the first dub tape, brought by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eiviiaru to our High School SF Club -- I'd say it has to be either my junior or senior years. This may be why I don't instantly go to 'Brock!' when listening to the dub, though the fact Zel's VA changes halfway through Season 1 and the fact I don't care for David Moo's Xellos means I tend to prefer the sub.
But, digression over, it made me laugh even with just Lina and Gourry getting pulled into trouble. And I kept thinking to myself 'I should get this for myself', except I wasn't used to the concept of having to buy my TV programs. I can't say what captured me, except that I adored Lina and Gourry - they were interesting enough I wanted to see what happened to them.
Flash forward to Anime Club Freshman year, where I met the unforgettable![[insanejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/ij-userinfo.gif)
uncreativity. That year, we watched about half of the first season of Slayers, and UC was gracious enough to lend me the series (at least the first two -- it took me years to see Try, and this was well before the new stuff). Despite her wanting to kill me for it, she also put up with my fan spazzing, and introduced me to yuuo, her friend and fellow fan (who introduced me to kuchehexe).
I fell in fricken love with Slayers, since it had the right mix of humor and drama, and the characters were awesome -- quirky enough to be interesting, but had enough depth that I didn't feel like they were a collection of tropes fighting evil. And it helped that I had friends who were also in love with it.
And, well, it's carried forward for four years of college and five of grad school, through new canon and old. I just keep coming back to enjoy the adventures of Lina Inverse and Gourry Gabriev and their friends (and enemies), and their wonderful world that can go from a meditation on genocide to magic tennis. (Avatar: the Last Airbender is the only thing that has come close here, though change 'magic tennis' to 'cast re-enacts Footloose'.)
Okay, who is really surprised by this? Anyone? Anyone? No?
Good.
Anyway, I first saw Slayers as the first dub tape, brought by
eiviiaru to our High School SF Club -- I'd say it has to be either my junior or senior years. This may be why I don't instantly go to 'Brock!' when listening to the dub, though the fact Zel's VA changes halfway through Season 1 and the fact I don't care for David Moo's Xellos means I tend to prefer the sub. But, digression over, it made me laugh even with just Lina and Gourry getting pulled into trouble. And I kept thinking to myself 'I should get this for myself', except I wasn't used to the concept of having to buy my TV programs. I can't say what captured me, except that I adored Lina and Gourry - they were interesting enough I wanted to see what happened to them.
Flash forward to Anime Club Freshman year, where I met the unforgettable
uncreativity. That year, we watched about half of the first season of Slayers, and UC was gracious enough to lend me the series (at least the first two -- it took me years to see Try, and this was well before the new stuff). Despite her wanting to kill me for it, she also put up with my fan spazzing, and introduced me to yuuo, her friend and fellow fan (who introduced me to kuchehexe). I fell in fricken love with Slayers, since it had the right mix of humor and drama, and the characters were awesome -- quirky enough to be interesting, but had enough depth that I didn't feel like they were a collection of tropes fighting evil. And it helped that I had friends who were also in love with it.
And, well, it's carried forward for four years of college and five of grad school, through new canon and old. I just keep coming back to enjoy the adventures of Lina Inverse and Gourry Gabriev and their friends (and enemies), and their wonderful world that can go from a meditation on genocide to magic tennis. (Avatar: the Last Airbender is the only thing that has come close here, though change 'magic tennis' to 'cast re-enacts Footloose'.)
